Originally Posted by
Melz
If I undstand how your using a large bowline, I don't think it's quite the same. This way you don't have to feed everything through your loop in your bowline. Not bad if your ridgeline is on its own and you attach your tarp to it after it's hung but a little more of an operation if your leaving your tarp attached to your prussics permanently.
This whole idea of this was to avoid loosing a nacrabiner...this way it's integrated into the end of the line, if you loose it you've lost your whole ridgeline.